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Hirusha Wanigasingha

Born 11.10.1999 in Sri Lanka
Lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka
ORCID ID: 0009-0008-2050-9273

Profile

My primary aspiration is to deepen my expertise and contribute to cutting-edge research in the fields of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. With a strong foundation in Computer Science and hands-on experience in developing machine learning models, I am driven to create scalable, intelligent systems capable of processing complex and dynamic datasets.

I am enthusiastic about collaborating with academic and industry partners to drive impactful, data-driven innovations that address real-world challenges.

Research Interests

Sports AnalyticsBioinformaticsNature-Inspired AlgorithmsMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingComputer VisionAI Applications

Education

M.Phil. in Computer Science

2025 - Present

University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Bachelor of Science (Honors) Computer Science

2020 - 2024GPA: 3.63/4.0

Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Dissertation

Optimizing Feature Selection in Spam Email Detection using a Co-evolutionary Algorithm

Supervisor: Prof. T.G.I. Fernando

Major:Nature Inspired ComputingNatural Language ProcessingMachine LearningComputer Science
Minor:MathematicsStatistics

Postgraduate Certificate Course on Research Methodology & Scientific Writing

2025 - Present

University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Research Outputs

Publications

Wanigasingha, N. H., Fernando, T. G. I. (2024)

Optimizing Feature Selection in Spam Email Detection Using Co-Evolutionary Algorithms

Proceedings of the 8th SLAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SLAAI-ICAI), Ratmalana, Sri Lanka, pp. 1–6. Published by IEEE.

DOI: 10.1109/SLAAI-ICAI63667.2024.10844981

Preprints & Archives

Katheesan, K., De Silva, P. H. H. P. N., Wanigasingha, N. H., Ariyaratne, M. K. A. (2023)

Genetic Algorithm Based Cut Order Plan and Cut-Panel Nesting Optimization for Apparel Industry

Journal of University of Bahrain

Link

Wanigasingha, N. H., Egodage, S. S., Ariyaratne, M. K. A., De Silva, P. R. S. (2025)

SerendibCoins: Exploring Sri Lankan Coins Dataset

arXiv preprint

DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.18634

Manuscripts Under Review

Wanigasingha, N. H., Harshini, W. G. L., Ariyaratne, M. K. A., Samarasinghe, U. S., Dikwatta, U., Fernando, T. G. I. (2025)

Glycemic Index in the Age of AI: Computational Breakthroughs

Future Technology (FUTECH) Journal

Accepted

Dasunika, A. D. H., Wanigasingha, N. H., Samarasinghe, U., Ariyaratne, M. K. A. (2025)

A Comparative Study on Nature-Inspired Algorithms Finding Optimal Policies in Reinforcement Learning

SLAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SLAAI-ICAI)

Accepted

Awards and Honours

Best Researcher Award - 2nd Runners up

2024

Institute of Applied Statistics, Sri Lanka (IASSL)

Category: Undergraduate Category

Best Research Awards 2024

Finnovation Lab Training Programme Participant

2025

Sri Lanka FinTech Summit 2025

Value: LKR 45,000

Selected and participated in the first-ever Finnovation Lab training programme. Received a two-day pass to attend the Sri Lanka FinTech Summit 2025.

Finalist - 'I am a Researcher 2024' Competition

2024

International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTER)

Value: 30,000 LKR

Awarded a two-day conference pass and finalist recognition.

Finalist - 'I am a Researcher 2023' Competition

2023

International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTER)

Value: 30,000 LKR

Awarded a two-day conference pass and finalist recognition.

Skills

programming Languages

PythonJavaC/C++RJavaScript

machine Learning A I

KerasTensorFlowPyTorchScikit-learnOpenCVNLTKSpacyYOLONumPyPandas

databases

MySQLSQL

cloud A W S

SageMakerS3CodeCommitCodeBuildCodePipelineService CatalogIAM

web Technologies

ReactHTMLCSSJavaScriptXMLJSONYAML

operating Systems

Linux (Ubuntu)Windows

tools

JIRAGitGitHubIntelliJ IDEAPyCharmVS CodeDockerJupyter NotebookPower BIMinitabMATLAB

documentation

LaTeXMarkdownWordGoogle Docs

soft Skills

TeachingResearch & DevelopmentCoordinatingTime ManagementProblem SolvingPrompt Engineering

References

Dr. M.K.A. Ariyaratne

Senior Lecturer

Department of Computer Science

University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Dr. R. M. Silva

Senior Lecturer

Department of Statistics

University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

Prof. T.G.I. Fernando

Professor

Department of Computer Science

University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

CV Date: 30.09.2025

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